Eugene Weekly : Calendar : 2.11.10

Deadline for Calendar and Art in the Galleries submissions are noon on Thursday, a week before the issue that covers your event. Send an e-mail with event, date, time, location and cost to attend to cal@eugeneweekly.com

Say whatever you want, but you know you love that song “Santa Monica,” from Everclear’s 1995 debut, Sparkle & Fade. With its chunky three-chord riff, simple bashing beat and alpha-omega crescendo, the single captures that classic sad but sunshiny escapism of California punk pop. Singer and frontman Art Alexakis — a reformed drug addict whose horrid childhood has been well publicized — was already in his mid-‘30s when that album hit big, and now, at 47, the band has been through multiple break ups, line-up changes and label shuffles. Even if there is nothing left of that original Portland-based outfit aside from Alexakis’s sheer tenacity and talent for writing catchy songs, you should show your love when Everclear and SixLifter7 play WOW Hall at 7:30pm Wednesday, Feb. 17; $18 adv., $20 door.

For policy wonks, journalists, regular readers of The New Yorker and just about anyone looking for a heads-up on high-level political misdeeds, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Seymour Hersh is a living legend. Hersh exploded onto the scene in 1969 when, with the Vietnam War going at full throttle, he broke the story on the My Lai massacre, in an article written for a small news service that ran in more than 30 newspapers and to this day marks a historical nadir in that particular U.S. travesty. More recently, he has written on the Iraq War and other political screw-ups with such fierce tenacity that neo-con Richard Perle called him the “closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist.” Hersh’s public talks are notoriously feisty and often loose-cannon-ish — meaning, not to be missed. He gives a free talk 7pm Thursday, Feb. 18, at UO’s EMU, where it is urged you rush now for advance tickets.

Joined by internationally acclaimed pianist Angela Hewitt (pictured), the Eugene Symphony on Thursday, Feb. 18, will perform composer-in-residence Steven Stucky’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Second Concerto for Orchestra, which as hailed as an “electrifying piece” by the New York Times. Also on tap are Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, and a performance by Hewitt of Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto.

The Oregon Arts Commission is seeking fine art “complimenting (the) aesthetic” of the Cheryl Ramberg Ford & Allyn Ford Alumni Center to be build on the UO campus; deadline for applications is 5pm Friday, March 12; for information and application, visit http://wkly.ws/ai

All performers under the age of 21 are encouraged to submit for inclusion in the 2010 Kidz Rock Concert Series; send photo, bio and links to awecindy@efn.org.

Dutch Bros. Coffee will hold a “Cans for Coffee” food drive Friday, Feb. 12; any customer donating three or more canned food items for Food for Lane County will receive a complimentary 16 oz. beverage; for a list of locations, visit http://wkly.ws/aj

Artists working in all 2- and 3-dimensional mediums, including installations, are invited to submit images of their work along with an application form to be considered for the next biennium of exhibits at the Maude Kerns Art Center; call 345-1571 for more information.

The LCC Climate Masters @ Work program is accepting applications from business owners, employees and community members seeking business development; for more information visit http://wkly.ws/ak or call 463-4605.